I listened to a Geraldo Rivera discussion with Mike Huckabee and Al Sharpton on Saturday evening.  They referenced Tea Party demonstrators who were at the Capitol Building earlier this day.  Apparently there were some racial epithets thrown at some of the black members of Congress and other demonstrations of disrespect toward representatives as they made their way into the building.  I don’t write tonight to justify such verbal attacks.  At the same time, I am not going to condemn them either.

What has the Obama Administration, the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader done this past year except disrespect the average American citizen?  Barack Obama was supposed to be the post racial president, the best man at the best time to be able to once and for all end racial divisions in this country.  What has he done instead?  Barack Obama, the post racial president has done more to divide this nation than any other president in history, including Bill Clinton.   Straight from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals he created a scapegoat for anyone and everyone who is unhappy with their life.  He has acted to divide a sufficient segment of the population from the remainder in order to achieve his political end.  Have you ever disagreed with the decision of an insurance company?  It’s all their fault.  Have you ever been denied insurance coverage because of a pre-existing condition?  It’s unfair.   Would you feel more secure if government insured you directly rather than leave insurance to the insurance companies?  Fine, the government will do it.  We will do this because insurance companies walk out on contracts.  They refuse pre-existing conditions.  They deny the best care.  They are evil.  

Lost in the details of more than 2,000 pages of an original House Bill and 2,000 plus pages of a similar Senate Bill are matters that Americans began to read and have considerable reason to worry about:

·         Unfunded mandates identified to all state governments except perhaps those states whose Senators might have spoken up to gain an exemption to secure their votes.

·         The creation of bureaucratic panels to determine what treatments will be available to the insured all predicated upon the patients’ age and expected quality of life.

·         Loopholes that would permit the use of tax dollars to finance abortions.

·         Mandates that everyone must purchase insurance.

·         Mandates for employers to purchase insurance even for part time personnel or be fined.  The fine is lower than the cost of the insurance itself and would likely eliminate small companies as insurance consumers and destroy insurance companies. 

·         Mandates that insurance companies include pre-existing conditions that can only increase the cost of any insurance when including these individuals in a risk pool. 

·         Guaranteed new taxes on medical devices and other goods and services.

·         Cut of $500 billion from Medicare to pay for the program

·         The forced addition of persons into the Medicaid program with costs to be borne by the state

·         Addition of a projected 32 million new insured

·         Cost projections predicated upon premises contained in the bill that result in double counting of savings and unrealistic savings.

Unfunded mandates on our state government will drive local taxes through the roof.   The inclusion of pre-existing conditions will result in higher premiums for all of us.  Mandates on businesses will result in fewer employer purchases of insurance in favor of fines.  Taxes on medical devices will make all insurance and consumption more expensive for us all.   The cost projections for such a program are always presented in a manner to sell the program not to evaluate it.   Savings have been double counted, other programs people depend upon are cut and the Congressional Budget Office has based its projections on unrealistic data that are included as a premise to their legislation.  In some cases these are tax increases that have been delayed to a future Congress that will likely never happen. 

These actions will destroy the health insurance industry.  Thinking logically, if I am in that business I would cut my losses and get out because I wouldn’t be able to compete and I couldn’t offer an economic product to my customers with all the government mandates.   Government will then have to step in.  Dennis Kucinich will get his single payer provider bill because government will act to fill a vacuum. 

Insurance companies are not evil.  Are there some people in insurance companies that will act at times in their self interest over the interests of their customers?  Certainly this happens but this is why we have courts to work these kinds of things out.  But corporations only have legal identities.  They are not people and as such they cannot be regarded as having human traits of good or evil.   As a whole 85% of this country identified in one poll that they were happy with their healthcare insurance.  So what is the problem?

The problem is that we have left wing radicals in our government.  They have been there for nearly forty years now and they have defined nirvana as a big government that takes care of everyone equally and that provides for all our needs from cradle to grave.  They never recognize the problems of this kind of a utopia as including a) the majority of the American people do not want it, b) we cannot afford it and c) like the experiments in Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Union, such societies never result in equality. They result in disparities, disparities between the average citizen and those who are in power.  Those in power live like kings while citizens search for a loaf of bread. 

Yet, these left wing radicals continue to foist their Socialist and Marxist ideas on the public under the guise of being progressive.  Progressive is just as profane a word as liberal because these ideas are not progressive at all.  They will take the greatest economy in the world and destroy it with regulation and taxation.  These ideas are regressive, not progressive.   John Boehner is correct when he says this bill will be the ruin of this country. 

But in the end, Obama, Pelosi and Reid do not care.  They foisted their strategy on the American people, in the House and in the Senate.   They have divided us to enable them to conquer the few who will accept security over liberty.  They have divided us to enable them to conquer those who believe that government can provide them a right and that they have a ‘right’ to healthcare.  They have divided us between those who understand there is a difference between healthcare and healthcare insurance and it is healthcare insurance that is being destroyed.  Healthcare will only follow.   But 60% of the country does understand and this majority is being summarily ignored by the Congress and by this administration.  In short, Obama, Pelosi and Reid have made themselves the enemy of the American people.   We write our Senators and our Representatives and we are ignored.  We attend Town Hall Meetings and we are similarly ignored.  We demonstrate in Washington and on the capitol steps in many of the 50 states and again we are looked at as rude, as imbeciles or as dolts who simply don’t appreciate the intellects of those who to a large extent were trained for nothing, educated only in the liberal arts and who have naively theorized for everyone what nirvana truly can be. 

This trio of Obama, Pelosi and Reid, have spent the last year treating the American taxpayer as the enemy because we taxpayers “selfishly” do not want our income taxed further to provide an entitlement to a community of people we have no responsibility for.  We look at the Constitution and we see no permission for the government to pass such legislation.  We see our Republican representatives kept out of discussions as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid corrupt the House and the Senate by turning them both into institutions our founding fathers would never recognize. 

Obama, Pelosi and Reid have not united this country they have defined themselves to be the enemy.   They are one more Axis of Evil just as intent on transforming this country as would Iran, N. Korea or the former Iraq had they been given half the chance. 

So then, why should it surprise anyone when someone expresses a feeling of hatred toward the Congress, toward the Senate or toward this President?  And when people express feelings of hatred, what do they do?  They say whatever they can think of that will hurt the most.  Many will likely say things they never would have said only a few months ago.  Many will likely regret what their hatred has caused them to shout but they will shout things nevertheless because people will be ignored only for so long. 

The American people have for more than a hundred years been relatively polite in their discourse against their government.  There are examples of rebellion in our early history.   George Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion.  Andrew Jackson put down a rebellion in South Carolina because of their Nullification Act that rejected federal tariffs.  This was a precursor to the Civil War.   Abraham Lincoln fought the great Civil War.  We had Indian wars in the latter part of the 19^th Century and relatively little in the way of armed insurrection since.   Does this mean it couldn’t happen in the 21^st Century? 

Obama, Pelosi and Reid have nurtured a Congress intent on ignoring the will of the American people by passing this legislation.  Obama is intent on denying a majority of Americans liberty to the benefit of a minority of individuals that have been pointed to time after time as uninsured.   This is about power, pure and simple.  If it had anything to do with healthcare there would have been compromises long ago.

So, if Congressmen, Senators or the President are appalled by the hatred demonstrated toward them by persons demonstrating on their doorsteps they need to recognize that what they sow, they shall also reap.